reduced or minimized FC window

[Oli772]

Hello,
I am a running FC with its GUI in a python subprocess macro.
OS is ubuntu 20.04 on Linux. FC is 0.19.
However during the process the FC window appears to fit all the screen.
I would like to have it more discrete as a reduced window or a minimized banner.
How could this done?
Thank you for your help

[onekk]

Hello please add information required in IMPORTANT post at top of this forum.

Without proper version information it is hard to supply a solution as something may differ depending on OS and libraries versions.

It is however difficult to use "FreeCAD as a library", and to interact with the MainWindow of FC if OS is unknown as something may depend on the OS used.

Regards

Carlo D.

[openBrain]

Something like

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mw=FreeCADGui.getMainWindow() 
mw.setWindowState(mw.windowState() & QtCore.Qt.WindowMinimized)

[Oli772]

thank you,
but what I get then is:

name 'QtCore' is not defined

[openBrain]

thank you,
but what I get then is:

name 'QtCore' is not defined

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from PySide2 import QtCore

[Oli772]

Thank you very much, that works: the FC starts reduced then minimized.
Do you know how it could be right minimized from the start ?

here the start of my script:

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from __future__ import unicode_literals
__title__= ".."
__author__= ".."
__date__= ".."
__version__= "..."

import sys
# add folder containing FreeCAD.pyd, FreeCADGui.pyd to sys.path
sys.path.append("/usr/lib/freecad/lib")

import FreeCAD, FreeCADGui
import ImportGui

from PySide2 import QtCore
mw=FreeCADGui.getMainWindow() 
mw.setWindowState(mw.windowState() & QtCore.Qt.WindowMinimized)

from FreeCAD import Base
import Draft, PartDesign, Part, Import
import BOPTools.SplitFeatures
#import _CommandCompoundFilter
import CompoundTools.CompoundFilter


doc = App.newDocument()

[openBrain]

Thank you very much, that works: the FC starts reduced then minimized.
Do you know how it could be right minimized from the start ?

Hmmm... I see nowhere in your code a line where you actually launch FreeCAD...